1,000 free air tickets for stranded expats from Kerala

1,000 free air tickets for stranded expats from Kerala

Coronavirus: Film actor Mammootty leads free air ticket drive for Indian evacuees. South Indian film actor Mammootty is spearheading a massive relief effort to provide free air tickets to cash-strapped expatriates waiting to be repatriated by special flights being operated by Air India.. Mammootty has undertaken the mission in his capacity as chairman of Kairali TV, a south Indian channel run by Communist Party of India (Marxist), which is heading Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front led by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.. John Brittas, managing director of the popular Malayalam channel, said 1,000 air tickets would be given away free of cost to the most deprived and stranded expatriates from Kerala in the first phase of the mission.". We are exploring the possibility of launching chartered flights to evacuate hundreds of such expatriates in distress to Kerala from the GCC countries.. For the operation, special permissions have to be obtained from government authorities in India and their counterparts in the GCC states," said Brittas.. In the second phase of the mission, titled "Kairali joining hands for expats", hundreds more eligible expatriates will be provided with flight tickets.. "The mission is drawing enthusiastic support from several quarters.. Already several businessmen and firms